So I got an external drive recently---all of 1.5TB---and I'm going to format it to NTFS from FAT32. Simple enough, right?
WRONG!
It's been going solid for about four hours and the progress is somewhere around a quarter. Like an idiot, I didn't manually assign it a drive letter, and I need to use another external drive that's got everything mapped to the drive letter currently occupied by Mr. Takes Forever to Format.
Can I
a) Cancel the format of the big one and go about my business without any threat to that external drive,
-OR-
b) Plug the other one and run the programs on it directly (i.e. go into the proper directory and run the exe) without issue?
Arrgh, I never counted on this. Any advice is welcome.
WRONG!
It's been going solid for about four hours and the progress is somewhere around a quarter. Like an idiot, I didn't manually assign it a drive letter, and I need to use another external drive that's got everything mapped to the drive letter currently occupied by Mr. Takes Forever to Format.
Can I
a) Cancel the format of the big one and go about my business without any threat to that external drive,
-OR-
b) Plug the other one and run the programs on it directly (i.e. go into the proper directory and run the exe) without issue?
Arrgh, I never counted on this. Any advice is welcome.
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